In America you get legalized gambling on lifesaving treatments instead of universal healthcare
@cjmoose
Rock lover, beer drinker, birdwatcher, weather nerd. Former NPS, Former #SciEd teacher, Former #VetMed. #GoAvsGo fan. @1LukeAF.bsky.socialβs official taste-testerπ΄. Parent of Rainy, Stormy, & Fred. #Lymphedema, #ADHD, #SciCom
In America you get legalized gambling on lifesaving treatments instead of universal healthcare
βThe military planning has been stellar,β said Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an expert on US foreign policy on Iran. βThat said, politically, this is increasingly looking like a cluster fuck. And the reason is that step one of any plan is to establish a goal β the targeting should be in pursuit of that goal. The United States has this backwards. We have the targeting, but we donβt have a clear goal, and that lies not on the Pentagon planners, but on Donald Trump.β
Chat, is it good when the guy at AEI calls your war a "cluster fuck"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
MSNBC reveals dark money group "Democracy Unmuted" has been paying influencers $1,500 per negative post about Kat Abughazaleh
One post from TheWokeGinger, with over 1,000,000 followers, recited whole sentences from the Democracy Unmuted brief
Happy Rainbow I believe in holding grudges. I'll heal in hell.
That is the power of voting with my pocketbook - I control it
No one else gets to decide how I spend my money
We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.
Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: β[Black women] will say if & when itβs over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.β
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They think weβre stupid for not wanting to have our national parks and outdoor spaces carved up and destroyed by billionaire polluters for profit
Isn't allowing slavery state-by-state setting labor policy at the state level?
LaVoy Finicum, the guy who got himself killed in a shootout with the police after participating in the occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said that his "main source of income" was being paid by Catholic Charities to take in foster children to work on his ranch
FEDERAL COURT ORDER REQUIRES TENNESSEE SAWMILL TO PAY $73K IN PENALTIES, TURN OVER $10K IN PROFITS FOR ENDANGERING CHILDREN AT WORK
Plateau Sawmill LLC employed two children - as young as 14-years-old - at the sawmill to unload wooden boards from a conveyor belt in violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition, the sawmill employed a 13-year-old, which violated the FLSA's minimum age standard of 14 years for non-agricultural work. Investigators learned the three children worked as early as 6 a.m., an hour earlier than the law permits.
Remember when I said it should be bigger news that JD Vance thinks labor laws should be left up to the states? www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
βAre you not entertained?β- Wedgie, probably
The current NWS forecast in Turlock for next Monday and Tuesday is 92F. The hottest ever March day on record in Turlock is 87F. It is jaw-dropping that a monthly record high could be shattered by 5F. Also, do you. Notice anything about the years in which the top-20 hottest March days occur?
Not many folks from Tallahassee, Big Bend, or southwest Georgia on this app, but just in caseβ¦
If youβre just waking up this morning, please be aware that we are under a tornado watch with a nasty storm front expected to move through soon.
#FLWx #GAWx #TLH
The Gulf of Mexico is running a severe fever... it's the warmest it has ever been for this date. π₯΅
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
More on Iveyβs unexpected commutation decision www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The Alabama governor commuted the death sentence of a man, set to be executed, who was convicted under the felony murder doctrine β meaning he wasnβt the person to commit a murder.
Bolts reported last year on how Alabama is extraordinarily prone to prosecute people for murder under felony murder.
I think maybe the second option? But Iβm not a quilter (though I do absolutely adore quilts), so if you have any examples of each type of stitching on some other quilts, that might help.
βLet me in! Let me in! March Mammal Madness has started and I need your laptop!!!β #2026MMM
WORLD Iran's Control of Hormuz Means It's Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude go through the strait, while it scares off others
β’ Safari < ε£ζ²θΏ Russia Set for Oil-Revenue Surge in Coming Weeks on Iran War Halt to Black Sea crude shipments offset benefits of soaring prices last week, but they're coming
So, two of the big winners in the Iran war are β¦ Iranian and Russian oil exporters
Every single βwhy the system fails to protect us from sexual violenceβ story could be told and answered by investigating how the system treats sex workers. Itβs not failing; itβs functioning as intended.
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegsethβs lust for βlethality.β
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Oh it gets better. Apparently Florsheim can't afford to make their shoes in the USA and are *suing the federal government* over tariff refunds π€£
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Avs fam is good people.
His dad was literally in the stands the night he got his Gordy Howe hat trick.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? Not a single one has enough spine to say no to the footwear fΓΌhrer?
Canβt believe I left off Malacca.
First ones that came to mind:
Bering Strait
Florida Strait
Juan de Fuca Strait
Sunda Strait
If you include all geographic straits:
Drake Passage
Mona Passage
Bosporus
English Channel (Strait of Dover)
Dardanelles (Straits of Gallipoli)
Failed his physical.